Workers removed a portion of a 38-foot-tall granite monument honoring Confederate soldiers and sailors in St. Louis' Forest Park on Thursday, according to the Associated Press, but it may take weeks for the rest of the statue to come down.

Koran Addo, a spokesman for Mayor Lyda Krewson, told the AP that while work crews had hauled away the tip of the monument, it was unclear when the rest would be removed.

This 32-foot granite monument honoring Confederate soldiers and sailors that has stood in St. Louis' Forest Park since 1914. Jim Salter/AP

The 103-year-old monument shows a Confederate soldier leaving his family to go fight in the Civil War, flanked by an angel. An inscription in the stone reads, “in memory of the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate States By the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Saint Louis.”

Although St. Louis residents have long requested that the Forest Park statue be removed, elected city officials had refused to use taxpayer dollars to fund the operation. Instead, residents offended by the statue — particularly in light of the fatal 2013 police shooting of Ferguson, Missouri, teenager Michael Brown — were forced to drum up money by way of a GoFundMe campaign.

According to AP, the final resting place of the Forest Park monument is still undetermined, as no museum or park has agreed to accept it as of yet.